topic Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid) in AutoCAD Forum

Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

emiller — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:11:53 GMT

in drawing, i have dashed lines that are not showing up as dashed anymore, they're showing up as solid

i checked a few variables that i think are related, but they made no difference when i changed them, and regenerated the drawing.

MSLTSCALE = 1

LTSCALE = 0.5

any suggestions as to what could be the issue?

drawing is attached

the wires feeding the motors on the left side of the drawing are the ones that 'used to be' dashed lines but are now showing as solid

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:15:34 GMT

Hi,

I opened your drawing and see that:

Did you try command _REGEN, because this seems to be ok, doesn't it?

- alfred -

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

emiller — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:21:02 GMT

I have tried that, as well as REGENALL.

I tried them both numerous times actually after trying the various settings that I mentioned above

I printed that drawing out last night and it had dashed lines. today I open it back up and now its solid....? I didn't change anything that I can think of that would cause this

I attached a snippet of mine showing them as solid.

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:23:20 GMT

Hi,

do you have another workstation to try to open the same drawing?

On your workstation ... if you login with another user account, start AutoCAD and open the DWG-file, same issue?

When you start AutoCAD, run command _GRAPHICSCONFIG and switch OFF hardware acceleration, better?

- alfred -

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

injineri — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:55:57 GMT

in my Autocad it seems good too. just set in properties palette 0.2 for linetype scale and it seems a little dashier 🙂

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

injineri — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:57:41 GMT

sorry, haven't attached screenshot correctly in previous comment. here's my settings

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

emiller — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:02:16 GMT

I don't have another workstation nearby at the moment, so on the same workstation (under the same user account). I tried changing the GRAPHICSCONFIG and then turned off the Hardware acceleration and the lines starting showing as a dashed line! then I turned hardware acceleration back on (all options are set to on) and the lines were still showing as dashed lines.

I wanted to verify its fixed, so I closed and opened the drawing again. and its back to solid line

so I tried another drawing that had the same issue. I turned hardware acceleration off and the line still shows as a solid. it didn't turn into a dash like it did on the other drawing. turn hardware acceleration back on, still shows as a solid. so hardware acceleration seems to affect it one one drawing, but not the other...?

I attached this 2nd drawing

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:07:03 GMT

Hi,

>> so I tried another drawing that had the same issue

Select one of these lines and look to the property window, the linetype scale is set to 0.0001, much too small to be displayed.

Change the value to 1 and run command _REGEN.

- alfred -

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

emiller — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:07:47 GMT

on the original drawing (100). I tried changing the scale of the line as you shown and it does in fact change and seem to work properly!

on the 2nd drawing I added (101). nothing seems to work no matter what setting/value I change

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:09:56 GMT

Hi, I guess our latest posts crossed ... 😉

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

emiller — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:11:19 GMT

that fixed it!, I didn't know that had been changed (had numerous people playing around with these drawings trying to figure it out...)

and I have hardware acceleration turned on (with all options on). so this should work!!!

I guess I'm still confused as to why turning hardware acceleration off and then back on fixes this? I'm glad it did! just curious now as to why that happened

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:14:57 GMT

Hi,

>> I guess I'm still confused as to why turning hardware acceleration

>> off and then back on fixes this?

Take this as experience .. the next time this happens remember to try to turn hw-acceleration off and see if that helps again.

Updating graphic card driver could make sense then too.

- alfred -

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

emiller — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:17:54 GMT

I am downloading an update for the video card as we speak!

I never would of thought of checking the hardware acceleration settings, so thank you very much for the help!

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

wamalsad — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:56:16 GMT

what I did was changed the global width from 0 to .1 and they showed up dashed again

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

meghantopp — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:54:07 GMT

Regen is my life saver

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

precision — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:12:04 GMT

Here's what I have found that works quite often.

When you get something stuck in your drawing sometimes from another system adding some dirt to the drawing

I purge the drawing and then start a new template and copy the drawing into the new drawing and rename it.

I have had to sometimes do that section by section because some attribute has the dirt attached to it.

And sometimes you can drill down to the affected area and sometimes fix it, sometimes not.

If I have problems, I don't keep wasting time, I do this right away.

RELSTL

Re: Dashed lines not appearing as dashed in model space (they're solid)

Simon_Mathews — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:56:59 GMT

I prefer to set PSLTSCALE to 0 , so that what ever your linetypes appear like in model space they will appear the same in paperspace. If you get it right in model and then you dont have to worry about messing with LTS.